Slackrope unicycling...

the slack rope in my garden is between two trees about 6m apart. the
rope (5cm climbing tape) is attached to the trees at about chest height
and dips to about half way up my shin at its lowest.

Try an look at something vertical infront of you when balancing and not
the floor or rope, this way its much easier to see weather you are
remaining vertical.

the foot that is not on the rope should point towards the floor and if
its lower than the foot on the rope it will act as a very good counter
balance

dont try and walk across the slack rope, balance on one foot and then
put your other foot on the rope and tranfer the weight and balance to
you new foot and remove the trailing foot. It sounds, and looks i lot
like walking, but is good to have that mind set..

tight rope is much easier, and should be a tight as possible, unless you
want some bounce int their to help you jump off the wire (with back flip
if desired)

as for unicycling on either, I've not done any rail riding...

good luck dude and hope that something in here is useful

andy

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My experience is that the longer the rope the easier it is. You say you
do a 2 meter rope. That is very difficult for me. I think about 6 meters
is about right. Even a 6 meter rope is difficult at the ends, so make
sure you start out in the middle. I think slack rope walking is much
easier than learning to unicycle. I forget which one I learned first.
Basically there are 4 foot positions to learn. Each foot by itself and
each foot in front of the other. When you have those 4 positions, then
you can walk. It really helps to have something to hold on to while you
are learning. After that you can "freemount", without any assistance if
the rope isn't too far off the ground.

I've never tried to unicycle on the rope, I don't think I'm good enough
on the uni.

I hope this helps.

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Andrew,

'Here' (http://tinyurl.com/kr0n) is a short thread and some pics of
Vaughn's slackrope set up. He uses a portable hammock frame.

(You were the only reply to that thread, any correlation?)

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Hey, Andrew,

The whole slacklining thing is huge in the rockclimbing world, which is
where it started. If you Google for slacklining you'll find a bunch of
stuff. Or go to Rockclimbing.com. They have a discussion group just
for slacklining.

JL

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So is there a difference between a slack rope and a slackline?
It seams that what you are talking about is just hanging a loose rope
between two trees, but I can do what I thought is called slacklining,
but it is done with stretchy climbing web stuff, so it looks tight
untill you step on it, when it streches and wobbles all over the place.
So is there a distinciton between the two? which one is harder?

Also when you try to ride your unicycle on it, are you going to take the
tire off, or try to ride it with the tire still on (if that is even
possible)?

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WOW, I slackline too. Its soo fun. I could not uni on it though

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Slacklining is usually done on 1" nylon climbing webbing, yanked tight
between two trees (typically) producing a slack line of 30-50 feet. The
nylon webbing strectches at first but once the play has been worked out
of it from various tightenings and folks walking on it, it stretches
little, but still some. For that reason, and because I think a uni
would roll much better on a round rope as opposed to a flat piece of
webbing, I suggest using a 11mm static line, which has almost zero
stretch.

I can't imagine anyone doing this without removing the tire and riding
on the rim. I got a feeling that it won´t be much if any harder than
regular 'slacking,' which is a sort of moving stillstand on a line
instead of a wheel.

For the whole lowdown, check out: Slackline.com

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Thanks a lot, that's all very helpful. I'll get back to you when I've
made a bit of progress.

Andrew

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I think you have to look at the length between the anchor points and the
length of rope, and the ratio between the two. There's no doubt some
complicated maths here.

With sufficient slack, you become the "bob" of a pendulum. A long
pendulum swings more slowly. That's why a 2 metre slack rope may be
harder to walk on than a 5 metre one or longer.

Of course, for unicycling, the deeper the dip in the rope (the longer
the pendulum) the harder it'll be to ride up the hill. The wheel will
skid, and control will become impossible.

Conclusion: you're a crazy person and will probably die in the
attempt.:eek:

😉

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P.S. I have walked slackrope, but not for many years, and not much
then. It was great fun. Good luck.

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Thanks. 🙂

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i actually have tried this. itook the tire and inner tube out and rode
onthe rim. ican do a couple rotations,but i have not had much time to
practice. it is definitely doable

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I've ridden a very loose tightrope that was about 12' long (ummm, maybe
4meters? I don't feel like doing a conversion in my head). It was a
round line, and I was on a trials uni with a tire on. I made it about
1.5-2 rev on my best try. the hardest part was the line twisting under
the tire, making riding a tightrope far more difficult than a loose rail
ride. Riding a slackrope with the tire on is nearly impossible, due to
the twisting. Unless you're taking the tire off Andrew, you're doomed to
failure.

Then again, I never got very good at slackroping. I could do a pretty
long stand on one with a self mount but I could never switch feet or
walk.

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